Question/Discussion about crossplay between consoles and PC
Does anyone know if console and PC platforms will be kept separate when the crossplay is implemented? That consoles will have a crossplay only between them and Steam and Windows only between them? I watched the stream but it stayed a bit unclear if this is going to be the case.
I honestly hope they are not mixing console and PC players with each other or if they are there should be an option to turn the crossplay with PC off while having crossplay with other consoles. The game is not in a preferable state on console because of the neverending FPS drops, near nonexistent options menu and other problems. Sensitivity increase on console was nice, but it was not nearly enough to justify crossplay with PC. If console players are forced to play against PC players I'm probably going to play a lot less DBD than I am now.
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No, all systems will be in the same pool.
Cowards wont be able to turn it off unless they want really long queues.
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The whole point of crossplay is to have crossplay between all players. I doubt you'll be able to turn it on/off for each platform.
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What a mature comment and contribution to the discussion. We console players are such cowards.
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Well at least Hunt has the crossplay feature while keeping PC and consoles separate AND they also have an option to turn off the crossplay with other consoles. It really should not be impossible for BHVR to add an option to it.
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Definitely not impossible, but I doubt they'd go for it. Even if they were to go for it, from what I read in another thread, if you disable the current crossplay option (playing with/against people on the Windows Store), you'll only be matched with people who did the same. If they did the same here, you'd have ridiculously long queues.
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When crossplay is added to consoles, they will be put in the same pool with everyone else (Steam, Windows Store, Xbox, PS4, Switch). However, apparently it is an opt-in system - although of course, your queue times will be affected if you choose to opt out.
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I have over 1000 hours on PS4. Less than 100 on PC
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Okay, thank you both for the info. I really really hope they are working more on the console optimization then. I wonder if they will change it so that players who have opted out the crossplay can be matched with players on the same platform who has the crossplay enabled, if that even is possible.
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When an FPS tried it, they had to turn it off because the average PC players were absolutely destroying the best console players. DbD isn't an FPS, but it does require many of the same things, like snap-decisions and good aim.
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Do you think a console player will be able to dodge a PC Nurse/Billy or any rank 1 killer who can do a 180 swing in 0.2 seconds ?
What happens when a console killer meets a PC red ranks death squads 4-man survivors ? He will be bullied.
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How about just movement? Survivors and killers can turn on a dime in PC, thanks to mouse and keyboard controls. Good luck doing that with a controller.
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I guess the biggest difference will be that Console Players can see in their own games that Huntress and Nurse are strong Killers. Other than that, there should not be that much of an issue from the gameplay, especially not on Survivor.
On the technical side when it comes to optimization... PS4 seems to lag when a Status Effect is applied for example. The technical side will be a bigger issue than the gameplay-side.
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Yes...I dont think theres any difference between survivors on console vs survivors on PC. Heck, alot of PC survivors already use controllers. Controllers do not hinder the movement of survivors at all.
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From what I heard, turning radius using a controller is much larger than with mouse and keyboard.
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Will Freddy be playable on switch then just on account of cross console play? How will they handle that?
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Theres really no benefit of keyboard and mouse over controllers for survivors, which is why many survivor players use controllers on PC. While I would say there IS a difference for killers...Killers arnt competing with each other anyways. Theyre competing against the survivor players...who they're likely to not be able to tell the difference between.
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I doubt console players have any idea what it is to be against a red rank PC killer, yes they will adapt, but they will lose their ranks for sure, also us PC player tend to be A LOT more relentless and willing tryhard. Some will like it , some will hate it
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Pretty sure the only thing that console survivors will notice is that all of a sudden...theres alot less killers who they can 360. They'd be in the same boat as PC survivors who don't overly rely on being able to 360 killers.
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Le'ts see what's the harm for consoles because there is no for PC players.
Bad things for console survivors:
1. Good Huntresses, Nurses, Deathslingers (because it's hard to aim on consoles). PC players have dealth with that just fine so I don't see any problems with that.
2, ######### 30 fps - Ok that is a problem though it's playable.
Bad things for console Killers:
1, Survivors 360 - which is a problem only once because it's always unexpected. PC killers also fall for this and you just need to be more careful once you saw survivor do it.
So if anyone wants to add any more reasons I would like to hear it. I don't play on console so I have no idea why would anyone refuse to have faster and fairer matchmaking.
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I’m your slightly above average killer and your average red rank survivor on console, but I have a feeling pc players are going to come in and destroy me even playing my best where their at rank 8 and I’m going to quit because it’s going to be no fun for me since console players cannot play to the potential of pc players and I will only received ######### on a stick in both roles
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For console killers we get massive frame drops and we don’t have the sensitivity potential that pc does
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The FPS drops are the biggest issue. FPS drops don't happen as much when playing survivor but holy sh*t when you play killer almost every action causes frame drops. The status effect activations are the worst. In PC you can turn much faster and do sharper turns compared to console. With controller stick the turning radius is larger thus causing slower turning despite the sensitivity increase. And if you have the sensitivity too high, it makes harder to do more precise actions such as aiming a hatchet.
Console optimization should be a pressing concern for BHVR since they are implementing crossplay. Otherwise facing a PC survivors as console killer is going to be awful and facing a PC killer as console survivor is going to be awful. Console players are screwed either way, how fun.
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With a new matchmaking system, I imagine the issue will be somewhat alleviated. I also imagine it's more likely for console players to be matched with console players because of that.
I've played games with PC users coming in over the Switch. One game had a flashlight duo who terrorized this poor Clown. Probably wasn't a pleasant experience for him. But they probably had a LOT more experience than him, so they wouldn't naturally be matched together in a pool of ALL console and PC users. With more users, I'd imagine matchmaking will be more accurate. The other game the PC user disconnected, and the Legion decided to farm with me and the other guy that was left.
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